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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Boyd School in NOVA will let them into kindergarten if they turn 5 by December 31.[/quote]

[b]Feeling sad for those kids whose parents let them do that.[/b][/quote]

Don't. I have 4 kids, all born between early October and late December. 3 of the 4 were pushed forward, and 2 of those 3 then also skipped a grade. Those two are in college now, after taking a gap year and traveling to different parts of the world. Somebody will always be shortest and somebody (else) will always be tallest. My kids were very unaffected by it. "I bet when you were 15 you were this short too; it's just that you're 18 now." The only thing that bummed them out was not getting the opportunity to drive themselves to school, but their friends picked them up most of the time. Don't feel sad for those kids. They're not all wandering around completely lost with poor fine motor skills.[/quote]

But you have to admit that school was very different back then, and your kids' kindergarten experience was likely not that unusual for the time.  If they are in college now, then we're talking at least 15 years ago, when it was certainly more common to use the calendar year for age cut-off.  Meaning that while a November birthday might be the youngest in the class, there could easily be some October and September kids that weren't that much older.  To do that now in a school system that says the cut-off is September 1 would be much different (and yes, I'm aware the PP was talking about a school with a cut-off of December 31).  Kindergarten is just not what it used to be, and the norm is for students to be five years old when school starts, and be at that maturity level. [/quote]

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